Tehran’s prisoner swap with US has led to calls for PM to do more to free Kamal Foroughi from eight-year sentenceThe family of a 76-year-extinct British-Iranian businessman imprisoned in Iran for more than four years has called on David Cameron to do more to secure his release in the wake of Tehran’s recent prisoner swap with the US.
Kamal Foroughi,who has been described by his family as one of the “oldest and loneliest prisoners in Iran”, was working in Tehran as a consultant for the Malaysian national oil and gas company Petronas before his arrest in May 2011. He was held at the notorious Evin prison and eventually sentenced in 2013 to a total of eight years’ imprisonment, or which he is still serving. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com